{"id":440418,"date":"2010-03-17T20:08:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=32716"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:08:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:08:59","slug":"history-of-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440418","title":{"rendered":"History Of St Patrick\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papundits.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/marlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2203\" style=\"margin:5px;\" title=\"marlin\" src=\"http:\/\/papundits.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/marlin.jpg?w=76&#038;h=96\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a>St Patrick\u2019s Day is celebrated on March 17 in commemoration of that historical  figure\u2019s act of driving the Norwegians out of Ireland. It seems that centuries ago,  many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the Norwegian  winters.\u00a0 Ireland was having a famine at the time and food was very scarce.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegians were eating almost all the fish caught in the sea, leaving the  Irish with nothing but potatoes.\u00a0 St. Patrick, taking things into his own hands,  decided the Norwegians had to go.\u00a0 Secretly, he organized the IRATRION (Irish  Republican Army To Rid Ireland Of Norwegians).\u00a0 Irish members of IRATRION  sabotaged all the power plants in hopes the fish the Norwegians kept in  refrigerators would spoil, forcing the Norwegians to a colder climate where their  fish would keep.\u00a0 The fish spoiled, all right, but the Norwegians, as everyone  knows, thrive on spoiled fish.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with failure, the Irish sneaked into the Norwegian\u2019s fish storage caves in  the dead of night and sprinkled the rotten fish with lye, hoping to poison the  Norwegian intruders.\u00a0 But, miraculously, the Norwegians thrived on this new  concoction and dubbed the smelly lye-soaked fish \u201cLutefisk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the Norwegians started  taking over the Irish potato crop and making Lefse.\u00a0 Poor St. Patrick was at his  wit\u2019s end, and finally on March 17, he blew his top and told the Norwegians to go  to hell, and it worked.\u00a0 They all left Ireland and moved to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000080;\">(Marlin adds &#8230;.. My ancestors were all Norwegian.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/category\/humor\/'>Humor<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/category\/humor\/jokes-humor\/'>Jokes<\/a> Tagged: <a href='http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/tag\/irish-humor\/'>Irish Humor<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/tag\/tony\/'>Tony<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/papundits.wordpress.com\/32716\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=papundits.wordpress.com&#038;blog=174708&#038;post=32716&#038;subd=papundits&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Patrick\u2019s Day is celebrated on March 17 in commemoration of that historical figure\u2019s act of driving the Norwegians out of Ireland. It seems that centuries ago, many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the Norwegian winters.\u00a0 Ireland was having a famine at the time and food was very scarce. 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